Latino Corner with Willie Villegas
(veteran NYC musician, composer, bandleader), is your new[s] source for Latino art, culture and history. He will present a part of Latino culture that is rarely heard in the mainstream US media. We are creating an archive of Latino culture, history and musical education, which will hopefully help you better understand the legacies of our rich heritage.

Latino Corner is a media partnership with Willie Villegas' public access show "Salsa En La Calle" and s6k Media

Keep stopping by for links to other Latino-based websites and information about what Willie's up to.

Celebrate your Birthday, Office Party,
or any Special occasion at LQ New York
For table reservations or more information call:
(212) 593-7575 for more info
salsaenlacalle@aol.com or www.s6k.com/latinocorner Also, if you are in the New York City region,
check out my show "Salsa En La Calle"

New Jersey International Salsa Congress 2012 (NJISC2012) is proud to announce a once in a lifetime event where the music of the great Joe Cuba & his Sextet comes ALIVE with the band's most prolific lead singer Cheo Feliciano!

My Home away from Home Gonzalez & Gonzalez known to the friendly's as G & G is coming to an end.....Aside from Los Jovenes Del Barrio, (an incredible Charanga Band) Willie Villegas Y Entre Amigos has been the band that has played there the longest..14 years to be exact.....We hold that record and are truly proud to have been a favorite at this one of a kind venue.

The music of Puerto Rico has been influenced by the African, Taíno Indians and the Spanish, and has become very popular across the Caribbean and across the globe. Native popular genres include bomba, plena, and salsa, while more modern innovations include the hip hop fusion reggaeton.

On March 22, Puerto Rico celebrates the annual holiday, Emancipation Day, commemorating the abolition of slavery from its island in 1873. Slavery had existed in Puerto Rico since the mid-16th century. In 1866, petitions were brought to Parliament to end slavery. On March 22, 1873, the Spanish National Assembly banned slavery in Puerto Rico. Slave owners were given monetary compensation for each slave. For the following three years, however, slaves were required to continue working for their former owners.

A flag is generally a piece of fabric, usually of rectangular shape, which may exhibit designs or colors as symbols representing nations, municipalities, societies, groups and institutions of various types. It is usually raised and displayed on a flag-pole in order to make it wave freely in the air.

The "Father of Boogaloo," Joe Cuba, passed away on Sunday, February 15, 2009 at 4 p.m. at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. He was the most popular exponent of the boogaloo, a fused Latino and R&B rhythm that exploded onto the American top 40s charts during the turbulent 1960s & ‘70s.

As a citizen born in the United States of America of Puerto Rican descent, my native language was second nature in my household and through proper education English was first. "To put a brand on someone's identity is to distinguish them among the masses."
Below you will read a quick synopsis on how the words Latin or Hispanic was derived.
Willie V.

From the 17th to the 20th century, the Americas and the Caribbean islands were colonized with a immense blending of race, language, religion and music. Drumming being an integral part of very day life in Africa, the Latin music we hear today mostly originate from the rhythms the African slaves brought to the new world.

By coincidence, on April 12, 2007 Tego Calderon expressed his thoughts about Racial injustices and his personal confrontations on a worldwide spectrum including his own native island of Puerto Rico in the New York Post Tempo section.
This topic is open to discussion and we welcome your comments...